Short Engendered Poems

Though not meant to offend,
I simply won’t pretend
you are the Adam’s apple
of my eye.

That stubble and those hands
may pass on OnlyFans,
but quick’s the brain to grapple:
that’s a guy.
...

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In Memorium 
Day 4:
TODAY



Today we remember
The man who engendered
All to this encounter


Today this city state
Feels deep loss to sure fate
May you find yonder gate


Today gratitude shows
In simple hearts that know
A fond tact in sure flow

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
26 March 2015
Singapore...

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In a world filled with losses and gains,
One  need to assess both realities.
Most resently, I have considered both when
I saw them wrapped in the words, grief and gratitude.
One word dealt pain and the other released a touch of heaing.
The two words are worlds apart, yet they engendered
Similar emotions in that they make me cry....

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I have lived and I have loved
and it was love, indeed,
that gave me life.

is love that has lifted me
far beyond the earth's
endless sky.

was love that engendered
an occasional cry-
(a saddened sigh.)

Blue heron hungers for his mate
ardently awaiting her return

Love has many hazards-
heaps of twist and turns;
yet without love

there is no life at all...

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When there is uncontrolled reason
Seeing what is here or not there
Temperaments engaged complete
Engendered by forces cognizant
Relevant, larger than life, being 
There is nothing larger than life
Enlightenment terminates in the end 
Rendered forth for one more season
To acknowledge what is and what is not
It is fare to say something is out there 
And if it isn't there is light somewhere...

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One last day to suffer,
as silence endures

One new day engendered,
to motion toward

A musical seamstress,
to stitch me back whole

A lyrical consort,
inscribed to behold

Each word as my seed,
 laying fertile the plain

Each phrase lost and orphaned,
my spirit reclaims

That breath once bespoken,
new hope to set free

That voice reawakened
—whose soul unto thee

(The Book Of Prayers: April, 2020)...

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One last day to suffer,
as silence endures

One new day engendered,
to motion toward

A musical seamstress,
to stitch me back whole

A lyrical consort,
inscribed to behold

Each word as my seed,
to lay fertile the plain

Each phrase lost and orphaned,
my spirit reclaims

That breath once bespoken,
new hope to set free

That voice reawakened
—whose soul unto thee

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2020)...

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What if our reasoned language
   can’t provide any answers

  —what if time isn’t real

What if the thoughts that we have
   are embedded distractions

  —what if reflection conceals

What if the feelings engendered
  are like puppeteers strings

  —what if truth doesn’t dance

What if the past and tomorrow
   are death to the moment

  —what if it’s all just a trance

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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Needless of your seduction I have fallen; 
Deep in the ocean of love; I awaken.
Do you know this feeling you have arisen?
Coming forth like a caterpillar from its cocoon

Such, is my sweet sorrow story, 
Told even by the cowry, 
Engendered by love’s mystery; 
Played to the gallery of misery

How I wished this was not a phantom
Already, it would have blossom
Never to be obstructed by the storm
Yes! I would cherish it to doom...

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trust in love, and always
listen to the beat of our wings
in the free wind.
love is not weak, nor like
uncast iron.
look not to blood nor muscle
for the secret of its strength.
love is not so easily surrendered.
love is not so easily discovered.
love is not so easily engendered.
love is not so easily uncovered.
@


written 41 years ago; what did I know of love back then? anyway, thought I'd still post it because, well, just because, that's all....

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blame the stars maybe
there is no preparation for this
we were the result of something like hate
that generated us who are love
we don't forget, father
we don't forget you wasn't human
maybe engendered without love
in the wrong month of a bad year
I said no love
always reeling from the bar
until being hated
but neither was our hatred a human thing
it was also inhuman hatred
what our unlove did...
now agonize in Paradise Asylum
blaming the stars, maybe....

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